Explain findings on diet and nutrition connections to criminality.
What will be an ideal response?
Studies have shown that when incarcerated juveniles were assigned to diets with limited levels of simple carbohydrates (e.g., sugars), their reported violations during incarceration declined by almost half (45%). Such recent reviews of the existing studies on nutrition and criminal offending concluded that dietary deficiencies in iron, zinc, protein, riboflavin, and omega-3 are significantly related to criminality. Furthermore, other studies have reported that various food additives and dyes, such as those commonly found in processed foods, can also have a significant effect on criminal behavior. Thus, the old saying “You are what you eat” appears to have some scientific weight behind it, at least regarding criminal behavior.
You might also like to view...
In forensic psychology, the term "reintegration" is typically used in relation to what?
a. A prison inmate returning to the community b. Redefining an offender profile with new information or evidence c. Returning a police officer suffering from PTSD to work d. None of the above
List some of the findings of the Montreal Longitudinal Experimental Study
What will be an ideal response?
Traditional criminal justice is:
a. proactive. b. reactive. c. inactive. d. active.
The level of exposure to lead appears to be a reliable predictor of all but which of the following?
a. The number of juvenile offenses b. The seriousness of juvenile offenses c. The number of adult offenses d. The seriousness of adult offenses